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A91003 Sacred eloquence: or, the art of rhetorick, as it is layd down in Scripture. By the right Reverend Father John Prideaux late Lord Bishop of VVorcester. Prideaux, John, 1578-1650. 1659 (1659) Wing P3433; Thomason E1790_2; ESTC R209683 60,135 136

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creatures at the Creator's presence In the New Testament The passing of a Camell thorough the eye of a needle Mat. 9.24 The Stars falling to the earth as a figg tree casteth her untimely figgs the departing of the heaven as a scrowl rowled together Revel 6.13.14 The whole world cannot containe the books wherein our Saviour's acts should be written Joh. 21.25 may not litterally be taken but as sublime Hyperboles expressing in the first a matter of the greatest difficulty in the second a foretelling of stupendious confusion in the last the not registred acts of our Saviour hardly and not necessary to be recounted of So sin is confessed in tearms to be hyperbolically sinfull Rom. 3.7 Light affliction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in an eminent hyperbolicall manner to work an eternall weight of glory 2 Cor. 4.17 And St. Paul acknowledgeth that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before his conversion he persecuted the Church Gal. 1.13 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Abusio so called when for want of a fit name to expresse a thing by we borrow that word which commeth nearest to hand by which means it commeth to passe that the word is abused and the Trope is more harsh and unequall as equum divina Palladis arte Aedificant Catachresis Catachresis abused as it were or far-fetched incongruous speeches may be tearmed such as All the earth was of one lip and one sort of words Gen. 11.1 that is of one Language and spake one Tongue Let us smite him with the tongue Jer. 18.18 Jer. 18.18 that is Slander him I will open the shoulder of Moab from his Cities Ezech. Ezek. 25.9 25.9 that is Dismantle his Townes to make way for his enemies I will turn to the people a pure lip that they may call upon the name of the Lord to serve him with one shoulder Zeph. 3.9 Zeph 3.9 that is with one consent So Daubing with untempered morter and sowing pillowes under arm-holes Ezech. 13. Ezek. 13. are unusuall to expresse deceitfull and flattering doctrine much more that as the Doway Bible gives it in the Canticle of my Cosen concerning his vineyard in Horn the son of oyle Isai 5.1 for Isa 5.1 Scituated in a fertile or fruitfull hill Likewise Psal 119. My soul is alway in my hand Psal 119. i. e. I am in eminent danger The ploughers plowed upon my back and made long furrowes Psal 129. Joh. 8.5 Psal 129. grieviously afflicted me To see death Joh. 8.51 for To die To shake off the dust of the feet Matth. 10.14 Matth. 10.14 for Utterly to renounce or abandon To pluck out the eye and cast it from us Matth. 5.29 Matth. 5.29 to take away occasions are elegancies in Scripture which otherwise might seem catachresticall So merit and wages or reward are urged which import no more then a good work and wages is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because it is paid in the evening when the work is done Also plenty of all things is expressed by 1. Butter of Kine and 2. Milk of Sheep and 3. Fat of Rams and 4. Rams of the breed of Bashan and 5 Goats with 6. the fat of the kidneys of Wheat and 7. the pure blood of the Grape for drink Deut. 32.14 Deuter. 32.14 So I might have received mine own with usury that is with increase a Catachresticall Synecdoche Matth. 25.27 From one dead sprang so many as the stars of heaven Heb. 11.12 Heb. 12.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and as the sand beside the lip of the sea innumerable Heb. 11.12 A clowd of witnesses Heb. 12.1 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 speciem praebere repraesentare because thereby is a representation made of some speciall thing that lyeth hid in the words which is made manifest either by the pronountlation of them or by the affixing of some demonstrative article to them and this when it is not so safe or meet to expresse our sense in words at length Virgil. Non licuit thalami expertem sine crimine vitam Degere more ferae Virum te praestes oportet Emphasis As Catachresticalls make an impression through their harshnesse and strangenesse so an Emphasis worketh through its vigour which in reading is enlivened by the pronunciation Hitherto are referred such epithets wherein the Apostles are called the salt of the earth Math. 5. wicked men the men of Gods hand Psal 17. Psal 17. employed sometimes to chastise the godly So Man of sorrowes Isa 53. Isa 53. Son of perdition of Belial of thunder of the morning have especiall emphases in them As also First born of death king of terrours bars of the pit Job 18.13 14. Job 18.13 Ib. 17.16 Ib. 38.37 Ib. 17.16 Bottles of heaven Ib. 38.37 With which may be ranged those high phrases and strains Behold I am against thee O thou destroying mountain saith the Lord which destroyest all the earth and I will stretch out my hand upon thee and roll thee down from the rocks and I will make thee a burnt mountain Jer. 51.25 Jer. 51.25 I will make it a possession for the Bittern and pools of water and I will sweep it with the beesome of destruction Isa 14.23 Isa 14.23 His breath shall sift the Nations with the sieve of vanity Ib. 30.28 Ibid 30.28 * Nominis pro nomine positio A putting of one word for another By this Trope the inventor is put for the thing invented the possessor for the thing possessed the continent for the thing contained and the efficient for the effect c. By Cicero tearmed Hypallage immutatio traductio lib. 3. de Orat. Traductio immutatio in ver●o Metonymia Amongst Metonymies those wherein the cause and the effect the subject and the adjunct the antecedent and the consequent are taken one for another are most of note and use And the Lord said unto Cain Why art thou wroth and why is thy countenance fallen If thou dost well shalt thou not be accepted and if thou dost not well sin lyeth at the dore Gen. 4.6 7. Sin that is the punishment for sin the cause for the effect or as some Sin that is the sacrifice for sin a repentant heart in thy power and therefore hast no reason to lowre at my dealing with thee For the second what more frequent in the Old and New Testament then Sacramentall metonymies as To kill the passeover Exod. 12.21 Kill the passeover 2 Chron. 30.18 Keep or celebrate the feast of the passeover 2 Chron. 30.1 Christ our passeover is sacrificed for us therefore let us keep the feast not with old leaven neither with the leaven of malice and wickednesse but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth 1 Cor. 5.7 8. where Passeover the thing signified is put for the commemorative and sacrifice by which it was to be presented Exod. 12.14.27 In which metonymicall sense the words of institution of the Lords Supper must be understood